Pargassius fish

[Kim A]

My mum says she ate this fish in Germany recently. Now, she speaks German, but she's never heard of this, and her German friends didn't know if there's an English equivalent. i've tried Google, with no success. Can anyone help to identify it, please?

[heathfield]

Maybe your Mum meant this

[hammerman]

Pangassius is a large.....very very large tropical catfish which lives in big, strong flowing rivers in Asia.

They can be bought as small, 3" specimens in the UK and kept happily in larger tropical aquariums.

[Kim A]

thank you both for taking the trouble to post replies - I'll get Mum to have a look at the pictures and see if she recognises what she ate!

[Gef]

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangasius_sanitwo ngsei